Program

Day 1: Friday, April 20, 2018

Time:
before 4:30 pm
Program participants only		 Check in
Hanover Inn: Directions
South Sixth St. Hotel: Directions
Time:
4:30–6:00 pm
(reception follows)
Location:
Carpenter Hall 13 (MAP)
Open to Public		 Keynote lecture by Rajyashree Pandey (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“Rethinking Gender and Agency in the Tale of Genji”
Time:
6:30–8:30 pm
Location:
2 Clement Road (MAP)
Program participants only		 Welcome Dinner
Join us at Dennis Washburn’s “Living Learning Faculty House”

Day 2: Saturday, April 21, 2018

All sessions will be held at Occom Commons, Goldstein Hall (MAP)

Time:
8:30–8:50 am		 Continental breakfast & greetings
Time: 9:00–10:00 am
Open to Public		 Presentations I

  • Takeshi Watanabe (Wesleyan University) “Late Heian Perspectives on Gender Through The Illustrated Scroll of Illnesses“
  • Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Dartmouth College) “An Unenchanted Love Story of an Aristocratic Lady and a Buddhist Acolyte: Chigo Imamairi“
Time:
10:00–10:10 am		 Coffee Break
Time: 10:15–11:15 am
Open to Public		 Presentations II

  • Christopher Lowy (University of Washington) “A Chrysanthemum Sendoff: ‘Reading’ Sexuality in a Muromachi Poem-and-Painting Scroll”
  • Kendra Strand (University of Iowa) “Performing the Journey through the Provinces: Representations of Travel in Early Modern Print Culture”
Time:
11:30–12:50 pm		 Lunch Break
Please explore the many great local restaurants near Hanover Inn (http://tinyurl.com/lbgo3s8)
Time:
1:30–3:30 pm
Open to Public		 Roundtable discussion
This is an informal session to discuss the keynote lecture and the four scholars’ works-in-progress as a group. We will also share experiences and techniques of teaching historical texts and/or images in undergraduate courses.
Time:
3:30–3:50 pm		 Coffee Break
Time:
4:00–5:15 pm
Open to Public		 Poetry/Short Story Reading

Patrick Donnelly (Smith College) and Stephen Miller (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“This Body Is Like the Moon in the Water: Illness as an Aspect of Impermanence in Buddhist Waka of Medieval Japanese Poetry Anthologies,” plus Donnelly’s poems on the topic of AIDS as an aspect of impermanence.

Keith Vincent (Boston University)
“Some Haiku by Masaoka Shiki on illness, love, and travel.”

David Boyd (Princeton University)
Short stories by Oyamada Hiroko (“Care” and “Extra Innings”) and an excerpt from her novel The Factory.
Time:
6:30–8:00 pm
Location:
2 Clement Road (MAP)
Program participants only		 Otsukaresama Dinner
Dennis Washburn’s “Living Learning Faculty House”